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Light: Rafaël Rozendaal

November 16, 2024 – Spring 2025

The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art announces Light: Rafaël Rozendaal, an immersive digital artwork, on view from November 16, 2024 through Spring 2025 on the Hyundai Card Digital Wall in MoMA’s Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. This installation presents a selection of Rozendaal’s vibrant animated works, each sampled for two to three minutes. Each work originates as a storyboard sketched on paper, which is then translated into code of only a few kilobytes (the exhibition’s total file size is 135 KB). The resulting final form is an autonomous website powered by that algorithm, generating the animation in real time. Light: Rafaël Rozendaal is organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, and Director, Research and Development, and Amanda Forment, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design. 

 

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Rafaël Rozendaal. Pages, 2023. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Variation 39: Erick and Mara Calderon Collection.

Rafaël Rozendaal. Implosion, 2023. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Collection the artist.

Rafaël Rozendaal. Rooms, 2024. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Collection the artist.

Rafaël Rozendaal. Many Moment, 2018. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Collection Family Kolen.

Rafaël Rozendaal. Quadrant, 2023. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Private collection.

Rafaël Rozendaal. Photomontage of the Gund Lobby featuring Flood, 2023. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Private collection.

Rafaël Rozendaal. Photomontage of the Gund Lobby featuring Pages, 2023. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Variation 39: Erick and Mara Calderon Collection.

Rafaël Rozendaal. Photomontage of the Gund Lobby featuring Pages, 2023. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Variation 39: Erick and Mara Calderon Collection.

Rafaël Rozendaal. Photomontage of the Gund Lobby featuring Twisting and Turning, 2021. Digital animation using generative algorithm. Collection Russell Smith.